Vimukt (In Search of the Sky)
Drama Hindi
When A 26-year-old mentally unstable son of a poverty-stricken elderly couple begins to feel like a burden and the reason for constant mockery in a village they have lived their entire life. The couple's decides to travel to the Maha Kumbh, once in a 144-year pilgrimage, largest human gathering on the planet. Will this journey bring them the healing they hoped for? Or will their lives be changed forever?
| Cast: | Nikhil Yadav, Meghna Agarwal, Raghvendra Bhadoriya, |
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| Director: | Jitank Singh Gurjar |
All Guild Reviews of "Vimukt (In Search of the Sky)"
A Face to the Poor Who Are Otherwise Only Seen as a Mass
The first ever film in Braj has received its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
In the last decade, it’s been heartening to see filmmaking voices emerge from the heartland, drawing raw, earthy portraits of rural life, where more than half of India still resides. We see such films hiding in the garb of a genre: comedy, satire, police procedural etc, especially when the director isn’t familiar with the milieu. Hence, the work of an assured filmmaker jumps out at us. The likes of Natesh Hegde, Anmol Sidhu, Achal Mishra etc, confidently marry sophisticated aesthetics with a lived-in grittiness. Director Jitank Singh Gurjar fits right into this mix as his feature debut, In Search of the Sky (alternate title: Vimukt) suggests. Told in Braj language, it tells the story of a family in rural Madhya Pradesh, which is trying to escape its life sentence by visiting the Mahakumbh.
Despite the Observational Richness, Vimukt Falters in Pacing and Basic Storytelling.
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